[No. 61]

MILITARY PUBLIC WORKS

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

FULL COMMITTEE

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. R. 8625 and H. R. 9893

FEBRUARY 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, MARCH 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, AND 13, 1956

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Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION

CARL VINSON, Georgia, Chairman

[No. 61]

H. R. 8625, TO AUTHORIZE CERTAIN CONSTRUCTION AT MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE

Washington, D. C., Monday, February 20, 1956.

The committee met at 10 a. m., the Honorable Carl Vinson, chairman of the committee, presiding.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order.

The bill we will consider this morning is H. R. 8625, known as the public works bill, the bill follows:

[H. R. 8625, 84th Cong., 2d sess.]

A BILL To authorize certain construction at military installations, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

TITLE I

SEC. 101. The Secretary of the Army may establish or develop military installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing, converting, rehabilitating, or installing permanent or temporary public works, including site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment, for the following projects:

INSIDE THE UNITED STATES

TECHNICAL SERVICES FACILITIES

(Ordnance Corps)

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: Training and storage facilities, $147,000. Jet propulsion laboratory (California Institute of Technology), California : Research and development facility, $143,000.

Pueblo Ordnance Depot, Colorado: Maintenance facility, $2,142,000.

Seneca Ordnance Depot, New York: Utilities, $88,000.

Umatilla Ordnance Depot, Oregon: Storage facilities, $258,000.

Redstone Arsenal, Alabama: Maintenance facilities, training facilities, and utilities, $5,259,000.

White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico: Utilities, $693,000.

(Quartermaster Corps)

Atlanta General Depot, Georgia: Operational facilities and maintenance facilities, $832,000.

Columbia Quartermaster Center, South Carolina: Administrative facility, $98,000.

Fort Worth General Depot, Texas: Operational facilities, maintenance facilities, land acquisition, and utilities, $1,317,000.

New Cumberland General Depot, Pennsylvania: Maintenance facilities, $631,000.

Sharpe General Depot, California: Maintenance facilities, $655,000.

(Chemical Corps)

Army chemical center, Maryland: Troop housing, community facility, and operational facility, $889,000.

Camp Detrick, Maryland: Storage facilities and utilities, $913,000.

Dugway Proving Ground, Utah: Research and development facilities and utilities, $867,000.

(Signal Corps)

Fort Huachuca, Arizona: Troop housing, maintenance facilities, storage facilities, administrative facility, and utilites, $6,856,000.

(Corps of Engineers)

Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Storage facility, training facility, operational facilities, maintenance facilities, research and development facilities, and utilities, $492,000. (Transportation Corps)

Fort Eustis, Virginia: Operational facility, maintenance facility, and utilities, $1,231,000.

(Medical Corps)

Walter Reed Army Medical Center, District of Columbia : Research and development facility and community facility, $4,209,000.

FIELD FORCES FACILITIES

(First Army Area)

Fort Devens (Camp Wellfleet), Massachusetts: Land acquisition, $302,000. Fort Dix, New Jersey: Training facility, $54,000.

Oswego, New York: Training facilities and land acquisition, $583,000.

Fort Totten, New York: Troop housing, storage facilities, and utilities, $1,212,000.

(Second Army Area)

Fort Knox, Kentucky: Maintenance facilities, and community facilities, $1,698,000.

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland: Operational facilities, maintenance facilities, medical facility, troop housing, and utilities, $5,885,000.

South Park Military Reservation, Pennsylvania: Administrative facility, storage facilities, and utilities, $190,000.

(Third Army Area)

Fort Benning, Georgia: Administrative facilities, maintenance facilities, communications facilites, and community facilities, $422,000.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina: Administrative facilities, operational facility, and utilities, $645,000.

Charlotte Armed Forces induction station, North Carolina: Administrative facility, $302,000.

Fort McClellan, Alabama: Troop housing, training facility, and community facility, $397,000.

Fort Rucker, Alabama: Operational facilities, maintenance facilities, training facilities, storage facilities, administrative facilities, trailer site facilities, land acquisition, and utilities, $7,300,000.

(Fourth Army Area)

Fort Bliss, Texas: Training facilities, maintenance facilities, administrative facilities, troop housing, community facilities, and utilities, $5,301,000.

Fort Hood, Texas: Community facilities, maintenance facilities, and storage facilities, $2,457,000.

Fort Sill, Oklahoma: Training facilities, $4,173,000.

(Fifth Army Area)

Fort Carson, Colorado: Storage facilities, administrative facilities, troop housing, training facilities, and land acquisition, $3,253,000.

Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana: Troop housing, $140,000.

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Communications facilities and troop housing, $1,092,000.

Fort Riley, Kansas: Administrative facilities, community facilities, troop housing, and utilities, $1,519,000.

Saint Louis Support Center, Missouri: Administrative facility, $3,346,000.

(Sixth Army Area)

Fort Lewis, Washington: Community facilities, training facilities, maintenance facilities, family housing, and utilities, $3,022,000.

Fort Ord, California: Maintenance facility and community facility, $223,000. United States disciplinary barracks, California: Community facility, $197,000. Yuma Test Station, Arizona: Troop housing, research and development facility, and storage facility, $1,520,000.

(Military District of Washington)

Fort McNair, D. C. : Academic facilities, $5,187,000.

(Armed Forces Special Weapons Project)

Various installations: Utilities, $478,000.

(Tactical Site Support Facilities)

Various locations: Administrative facilities, maintenance facilities, storage facilities, and land acquisition, $8,506,000.

OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

(Alaskan Area)

Ladd Air Force Base: Troop housing and maintenance facilities, $1,688,000. Fort Richardson: Storage facilities, $2,333,000.

Whittier: Storage facilities and training facilities, $2,849,000.

Wildwood Station (Kenai): Storage facility, $352,000.

(Far East Command Area)

Okinawa: Storage facilities, operational facilities, and maintenance facilities, administrative facilities, community facilities, troop housing, medical facilities, communications facilities, and utilities, $540,000.

(Pacific Command Area)

Alimanu Military Reservation, Hawaii: Land acquisition, $143,000. Helemano, Hawaii: Community facility, land acquisition, and utilities, $136,000. Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: Family housing and land acquisition, $2,668,000.

(Caribbean Command Area)

Panama Canal Zone: Sewage-disposal system for Army, Navy, and Air Force facilities, $1,060,000.

(United States Army, Europe)

Various locations: Operational facilities, maintenance facilities, community facilities, storage facilities, training facilities, administrative facilities, medical facilities, troop housing, and utilities, $17,994,000.

SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Army may establish or develop classified military installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing, converting, rehabilitating, or installing permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment, in a total amount of $188,783,000.

SEC. 103. Public Law 161, Eighty-fourth Congress, is amended with respect to Fort Jay, New York, under the heading "CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES" and subheadings "FIELD FORCES FACILITIES (First Army Area)" in section 101, by striking out "$731,000" and inserting in place thereof "$1,081,000", and in clause (1) of section 502, by striking out "$224,927,000" and "$533,904,000" and inserting in place thereof "$225,277,000" and "$534,254,000", respectively.